Comments on: World’s Largest Movable Technical Industrial Machines

By: Gesh

Gesh — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:39:25 +0000

Near there, at one of the power stations, someone made a major mistake on one of the cooling towers. It’s leaning the wrong way compared to the rest.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: dr.R.

dr.R. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:12:51 +0000

Just above the paper airplane you see some colour differences:

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Looks like they have been stitching images together in a strange way, and were left with a gap… Perhaps this was once a giant jigsaw puzzle?

By: Alex Turnbull

Alex Turnbull — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:19:08 +0000

Strangely it used to be the other way round – Microsoft used to process the images much more heavily (which was why Live maps imagery looked much better).

I don’t have any evidence about how much imagery is shared, but anecdotally they seem to be sharing more and more imagery these days.

Perhaps both services are just buying the best available imagery in most cases?

By: Ian Brown

Ian Brown — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:39:12 +0000

Interesting – and if you compare them side-by-side it’s obvious that Google does more image processing to improve the images than Live Maps does.

Alex- do you know how much the two services use the same imagery? I hadn’t noticed many cases like this where it’s obviously the same image source on both sites.

By: Alex Turnbull

Alex Turnbull — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:15:01 +0000

That giant paper plane also appears on Live Maps…
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=51.404788~14.702722&style=h&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&where1=51.404212%2C14.700694&encType=1

I wonder why that imagery is unavailable?

By: pradera

pradera — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:04:04 +0000

The scary part is comparing it to the villages nearby, which are about the same size…